December 2009
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Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment →
READABILITY is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading. -via NYT David Pogue’s 2009 Best Tech Ideas
This is like time traveling to the web in 1994, except better.
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Digital White Flight: How Race & Class Shaped... →
draft (PDF) of an upcoming article by social media’s premiere academic Danah Boyd
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For every kid that I bump into who is wandering the media industry looking for...
– Nicolas Carr, The Media Equation - For Media, a Sunset Is Followed Quickly by a Sunrise - NYTimes.com
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What It's Like To Write For Demand Media: Low Pay... →
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Facebook | Nonja →
This monkey gets treats every time it takes a picture of itself which automatically uploads to Facebook. I can’t read German, but that’s what I want to think.
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In Denmark, it’s legal to make copies of commercial videos for backup or...
– Dane who ripped his DVDs demands to be arrested under DRM law - Boing Boing
Cojones of Steel
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How journalism will survive? Conferences! «... →
In the process of finishing up The Chaos Scenario right now. A recurring message of this and related books like Crush It and Trust Agents seems to be “Just be awesome!” and “Listen to your audience!”
I want to go to this, but have plans for research regarding study of a related area with the Web Ecology Project. If you attend next Tuesday don’t forget to print this...
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Envisioning Development: What is Affordable... →
Absolutely stunning interactive map of income distribution in NYC by neighborhood. via Noah Brier
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Hour of Kindness- Episode 4- Polygons- Improv Track 1 on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Josh Atkins and Miguel Sabogal have taken their improvised analogue synth act Polygons to the next level. It’s like the Microsoft screensaver Mystify Your Mind became self aware and started popping pills to the Blade Runner soundtrack.